Abstract
In this paper, we assume that the sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) is a \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing random variables which are stochastically dominated by a random variable Y. Moreover, a real number sequence \(\{a_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) is assumed to be absolute summable. Then, complete convergence and complete γ-order moment convergence of the maximum partial sums for the moving average process \(\{X_{n}=\sum_{j=-\infty}^{+\infty}a_{j}Y_{n+j},n\geq1\}\) are obtained. The results in this paper extend and improve the corresponding ones under NA and ρ-mixing conditions in the literature.
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1 Introduction
Let the \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) be a random variable sequence and assume that a real number sequence \(\{a_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) is absolute summable, i.e., \(\sum_{j=-\infty}^{+\infty}|a_{j}|<\infty\). Then \(\{X_{n},n\geq1\}\) is called a moving average process of the sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\), if
and \(S_{n}=\sum_{i=1}^{n}X_{i}\), \(n\geq1\) are the partial sums of \(\{ X_{n},n\geq1\}\).
The complete convergence plays a very important role in the probability theory and mathematical statistics, which was introduced by Hsu and Robbins [1]. A sequence \(\{X_{n},n\geq1\}\) of random variables is said to converge completely to a constant θ, if
In view of the Borel–Cantelli lemma, the complete convergence implies that \(X_{n}\rightarrow\theta\) almost surely. Therefore, complete convergence is a very important tool in establishing almost sure convergence for partial sums of random variables, as well as weighted sums of random variables.
Let \(\{X_{n},n\geq1\}\) be a sequence of random variables and \(a_{n} > 0\), \(b_{n} > 0\), \(\gamma> 0\). If
then the above result was called the complete γ-order moment convergence by Chow [2]. We observe that the complete γ-order moment convergence is more general than complete convergence.
After the moving average process was defined, many conclusions about its convergence properties have been obtained. When the sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) is identically distributed, many results about the moving average process \(\{X_{n},n\geq1\}\) are known. For example, Ibragimov [3] obtained several limit theorems, Burton and Dehling [4] established a large deviation result, Li et al. [5] got the complete convergence property, Chen and Wang [6] obtained convergence rates of moderate deviations, and so on. Recently, several results have been obtained under the assumption that the sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) is dependent. For example, Zhang [7] and Chen et al. [8] discussed the limiting behavior of moving average processes under φ-mixing assumptions; Baek et al. [9] and Yu and Wang [10] established complete convergence under NA assumptions; Li and Zhang [11], Kim and Ko [12,13,14] and Zhou [15, 16] discussed the complete moment convergence under NA, φ-mixing and ρ-mixing random variables, and Qiu and Chen [17] obtained the complete moment convergence under END.
In this paper, we aim to study some convergence properties of the maximum partial sums for a moving average process under \(\rho ^{-}\)-mixing sequence assumption.
Let T and S be two nonempty disjoint sets of integers, and then define \(\operatorname{dist}(T,S)=:\min\{|j-k|;j\in T,k\in S\}\), and let the σ-field \(\sigma(T)\) (\(\sigma(S)\)) be generated by \(\{Y_{k},k\in T\}\) (\(\{Y_{k},k\in S\}\)).
Definition 1.1
A sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) is said to be \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing, if
where the supremum is taken over all increasing real functions f on \(R^{T}\) and g on \(R^{S}\).
Definition 1.2
A sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) is said to be ρ-mixing, if
where
Definition 1.3
A sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) is said to be negatively associated (NA), if
holds for every pair of disjoint subsets \(T,S\subset Z\), and coordinatewise increasing functions f on \(R^{S}\) and g on \(R^{T}\).
From the above definitions, we see that \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing includes both ρ-mixing and the NA sequence. Recently many scholars have focused on the convergence properties of moving average processes under ρ-mixing and NA condition. For example, Wang and Lu [18] obtained weak convergence and Rosenthal-type moment inequality; Budsaba et al. [19, 20] and Zhang [21] got complete convergence for the moving average process under ρ-mixing and \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing conditions; Tan et al. [22] gained the central limit theorem of partial sums for ρ-mixing sequences. However, to the best of our knowledge, there have been few results about the complete γ-order moment convergence for the moving average process under \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing condition. The main aim of this paper is to present some results about complete convergence and complete γ-order moment convergence for the maximum partial sums of \(\{X_{n},n\geq1\}\) under \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing condition.
Definition 1.4
The sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) is called be stochastically dominated by a random variable Y, if for all \(x>0\)
where the constant \(D>0\); we denote \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\} \prec Y\).
Throughout this paper, \(I(A)\) denotes the indicator function of an event A, the symbol C represents a positive constant, which can take different values in different places, even in the same formula.
2 Several lemmas and main results
Lemma 2.1
(Wang and Lu [18])
Let \(p\geq2\) and consider a \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing random variables sequence of \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\). For every \(j\geq1\), assume \(EY_{j}=0\) and \(E|Y_{j}|^{p}<\infty\). Then, there exists a positive constant \(C=C(q,\rho^{-}(\cdot))\) such that
Lemma 2.2
(Wang and Lu [18])
Let the sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty < n<+\infty\}\) be \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing. If the functions of the sequence \(\{ f_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) are all non-decreasing (non-increasing), then the sequence \(\{ f_{n}(Y_{n}),-\infty< n<+\infty\}\) is still \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing.
Lemma 2.3
(Wu [23])
Let \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\} \prec Y\). Then for all constants \(s,t>0\), there exist positive constants \(C_{1}\), \(C_{2}\) such that the following inequalities are true:
We now present our main results, their proofs will be given in the next section.
Theorem 2.1
Let \(1\leq p<2\), \(\alpha>1\). Assume that \(\{X_{n},n\geq 1\}\) is a moving average process of a \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing random variable sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\), and \(\{Y_{n},-\infty < n<+\infty\} \prec Y\). If \(EY_{j}=0\) for every j and \(E|Y|^{ap}<\infty\), then
If \(\alpha=1\), we have the following result.
Theorem 2.2
Let \(1\leq p<2\). Suppose the \(\sum_{i=-\infty }^{+\infty}|a_{i}|^{\theta}<\infty\), where \(\theta\in(0,1)\) if \(p=1\), and \(\theta=1\) if \(1< p<2\). Let \(\{X_{n},n\geq1\}\) be a moving average process of a \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing random variable sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\), and \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\} \prec Y\). If \(EY_{j}=0\) for every j and \(E|Y|^{p}<\infty\), then
Theorem 2.3
Let \(\gamma>0\), \(1\leq p<2\), \(\alpha>1\). Assume that \(\{ X_{n},n\geq1\}\) is a moving average process of a \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing random variable sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\), and \(\{ Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\} \prec Y\). If \(EY_{j}=0\) for every j, and
then
and
If \(\alpha=1\), we have the following result.
Theorem 2.4
Let \(\gamma>0\), \(1\leq p<2\), Suppose \(\sum_{i=-\infty }^{+\infty}|a_{i}|^{\theta}<\infty\), as well as \(\theta\in(0,1)\) if \(p=1\), and \(\theta=1\) if \(1< p<2\). Let \(\{X_{n},n\geq1\}\) be a moving average process of a \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing random variable sequence \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\), and \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\} \prec Y\). If \(EY_{j}=0\) for every j, and
then
Remark 2.1
Theorems 2.1 and 2.2 give complete convergence of the moving average processes \(\{X_{n},n\geq1\}\) for \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing random variable sequences. It is worth pointing out that slowly varying functions are not needed in this paper, so our Theorems 2.1 and 2.2 extend and improve those in Chen [8], Budsaba [19, 20] and Zhang [21].
Remark 2.2
Theorems 2.3 and 2.4 give complete γ-order moment convergence of the moving average processes \(\{X_{n},n\geq1\}\) for \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing random variable sequences. Noting that the \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing condition generalizes both NA and ρ-mixing conditions, our Theorems 2.3 and 2.4 also extend and improve the corresponding results of Li and Zhang [11], Budsaba [19, 20] and Tan [22].
Remark 2.3
It should be mentioned that our condition \(\{ Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\} \prec Y\) is weaker than the assumption of identical distribution for \(\{Y_{n},-\infty< n<+\infty\}\). Thus, our results still hold for identically distributed random variables.
Remark 2.4
Many dependent random variables satisfy condition (2.1). For example, one can consider NA, ρ-mixing and φ-mixing random variable sequences. Therefore, our results extend and improve the corresponding results of Zhou [15, 16] and Qiu [17].
3 Proof of theorems
Proof of Theorem 2.1
Write
Note that
Since \(\sum_{j=-\infty}^{+\infty}|a_{j}|<\infty\), \(EY_{i}=0\), it follows from Lemma 2.3 that
Therefore, for large enough n, we obtain
By (3.1), we have
For \(I_{1}\), noting \(\alpha p>1\), it follows from Lemma 2.3 and the Markov inequality that
For \(I_{2}\), from Lemma 2.2, we see that \(\{Y'_{j}-EY'_{j}\}\) is still a \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing random variable sequence. By Lemma 2.1, Markov and Hölder inequalities, we have that for any \(v\geq2\),
For \(I_{21}\), taking \(v\geq\alpha p\), we have
For \(I_{22}\), we will prove the claim based on two cases.
If \(\alpha p<2\), setting \(v=2\), similar to the proof of \(I_{21}\), we obtain
If \(\alpha p\geq2\), noting that \(E|Y|^{2}<\infty\), choosing \(v>\max\{ 2,(\alpha-1)2p/(2-p)\}\), we have that \(\alpha-v/p+v/2<1\), and therefore
Thus, from (3.2)–(3.5), we see that (2.2) is satisfied. □
Next, we prove Theorem 2.2.
Proof of Theorem 2.2
From the proof of Theorem 2.1, we only need to prove \(I_{1}<\infty\), \(I_{2}<\infty\).
For \(I_{1}\), noting \(\theta\in(0,1)\) if \(p=1\), and \(\theta=1\) if \(1< p<2\), by the Markov and \(C_{r}\)-inequalities, we have
For \(I_{2}\), by Markov and Hölder inequalities, as well as Lemmas 2.1–2.3, we obtain
Combing (3.6) and (3.7), we see that Theorem 2.2 holds. □
Proof of Theorem 2.3
Let \(x>n^{\gamma/p}\) and consider
Similarly to the proof of (3.1), for large enough x, we get
Then, we have
It follows from Theorem 2.1 that
To prove (2.4) of Theorem 2.3, we only need to prove
By (3.8), we get
For \(I_{31}\), by Markov inequality and Lemma 2.3, we get
For \(I_{32}\), from Lemmas 2.1–2.3, Markov and Hölder inequalities, we have that for any \(v\geq2\),
For \(I_{321}\), taking \(v> \alpha p\), we have
For \(I_{322}\), we prove the claim by considering two cases.
If \(\alpha p<2\), setting \(v=2\), we have
Similarly to the proof of \(I_{321}\), we have
If \(\alpha p\geq2\), noting that \(E|Y|^{2}<\infty\), choosing \(v>\max\{ 2,\gamma,(\alpha-1)2p/(2-p)\}\), we obtain \(\alpha-v/p+v/2<1\). Therefore, we have
Then, by (3.6)–(3.13), we see that (2.4) is true.
Next, we prove (2.5).
Thus, (2.5) holds. □
Next, we prove Theorem 2.4.
Proof of Theorem 2.4
Since the proof of Theorem 2.4 is similar to that of Theorem 2.3, we only give the proof outline as follows.
By (3.1), we have
For \(J_{1}\), by Theorem 2.2, we have
For \(J_{2}\), similar to the proof of \(I_{3}\), we have
For \(J_{21}\), by Lemma 2.3, Markov and \(C_{r}\) inequalities, similarly to the proof of \(I_{31}\), we get
For \(J_{22}\), similar to the proof of \(I_{32}\), taking \(v=2\), we obtain
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Song, M., Zhu, Q. Convergence properties of the maximum partial sums for moving average process under \(\rho^{-}\)-mixing assumption. J Inequal Appl 2019, 90 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-019-2038-2
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